The word and the image mutually excluded each other. Joseph was a literary man to his very marrow; he put faith in the invisible Word; it was the most miraculous thing in all the world; though without form it had more power than anything endowed with form
Lion FeuchtwangerTag: power-of-words word
In the beginning was the word, and primitive societies venerated poets second only to their leaders. A poet had the power to name and so to control; he was, literally, the living memory of a group or tribe who would perpetuate their history in song; his inspiration was god given and he was in effect a medium.
Kevin Crossley-HollandTag: poetry history language word poet spoken
Be positive in your thoughts, passionate in your words and purposeful in your actions. Clean thoughts, Cool words and Clear actions are the impressions that appeal to success.
Israelmore AyivorTag: words success purpose think word positive action actions thoughts impressions positivity act cool clean positive-thinking clear purposeful passionate appeal live-life-so-well positively be-positive purposes think-positive think-well
Thoughts do more. Words to much. Actions do much more.
Israelmore AyivorTag: words mind thought think word action actions brain food-for-thought mouth thoughts act more much do-it actions-speak-louder-than-words israelmore-ayivor much-more
Some words are sweet but unprotifable! Some are bitter but important. First weigh your words on the counter of integrity and speak not only because your words are sweet, but because they contain the truth!
Israelmore AyivorTag: truth words honesty deception integrity lie word food-for-thought sweet profit weight bitter scale deceive profitable israelmore-ayivor say-the-truth speak-the-truth the-truth-is-bitter weigh
All the words I had prepared turned coward and fled my mind like conscripts deserting a battlefield.
Nancy SpringerTag: mind word coward flee battlefield conscript
One word can end a fight; One hug can start a friendship; One smile can bring Unity; One person can change your entire life!
Israelmore AyivorTag: motivational life inspirational friendship friends love people peace war change smile word motivation unity little-things relationship one-love little person inspire 1 hug you-can-do-it one i-love-you change-your-life conflicts one-word united one-person peaceful israelmore-ayivor i-love-peace change-for-the-better end-the-fight food-ffor-thought hug-me just-one one-hug one-smile say-no-to-terriorism
Ten years from now, no one is going to care how quickly the books came out. The only thing that will matter, the only thing anyone will remember, is how good they were. That's my main concern, and always will be.
George R.R. MartinTag: wisdom inspirational books greatness patience word legacy mediocrity
Very Like a Whale
One thing that literature would be greatly the better for
Would be a more restricted employment by authors of simile and metaphor.
Authors of all races, be they Greeks, Romans, Teutons or Celts,
Can'ts seem just to say that anything is the thing it is but have
to go out
of their way to say that it is like something else.
What foes it mean when we are told
That the Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold?
In the first place, George Gordon Byron had had enough experience
To know that it probably wasn't just one Assyrian, it was a lot
of Assyrians.
However, as too many arguments are apt to induce apoplexy and thus
hinder longevity,
We'll let it pass as one Assyrian for the sake of brevity.
Now then, this particular Assyrian, the one whose cohorts were gleaming
in purple and gold,
Just what does the poet mean when he says he came down like a wolf
on
the fold?
In heaven and earth more than is dreamed of in our philosophy there
are
a great many things,
But i don't imagine that among then there is a wolf with purple
and gold
cohorts or purple and gold anythings.
No, no, Lord Byron, before I'll believe that this Assyrian was actually
like a wolf I must have some kind of proof;
Did he run on all fours and did he have a hairy tail and a big red
mouth and
big white teeth and did he say Woof woof?
Frankly I think it very unlikely, and all you were entitled to say,
at the
very most,
Was that the Assyrian cohorts came down like a lot of Assyrian cohorts
about to destroy the Hebrew host.
But that wasn't fancy enough for Lord Byron, oh dear me no, he had
to
invent a lot of figures of speech and then interpolate
them,
With the result that whenever you mention Old Testament soldiers
to
people they say Oh yes, they're the ones that a lot
of wolves dressed
up in gold and purple ate them.
That's the kind of thing that's being done all the time by poets,
from Homer
to Tennyson;
They're always comparing ladies to lilies and veal to venison,
And they always say things like that the snow is a white blanket
after a
winter storm.
Oh it is, is it, all right then, you sleep under a six-inch blanket
of snow and
I'll sleep under a half-inch blanket of unpoetical
blanket material and
we'll see which one keeps warm,
And after that maybe you'll begin to comprehend dimly,
What I mean by too much metaphor and simile.
Tag: humor poetry poem word very-like-a-whale
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